Bassline Bliss

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My bra —

BILLY — STILL HERE

BILLY — STILL HERE

When I was seventeen years old, I shouted out into an empty room, into a blank canvas, that I would defeat the darkness and find the light inside my soul.

I didn't know what I was searching for, I didn't know where this road would go, I only knew there was something inside me that refused to let me go.

I fell, I broke, I cried, I lost myself in the noise of this world, but somewhere underneath it all, Billy was still here.

I AM STILL HERE.

I walked through the fire, I walked through the rain, I carried my memories, I carried my pain. Every scar became a lesson, every tear became a flame, and every time the world tried to bury me, I rose and called my name.

BILLY!

I found my light, I found my voice, I found the part of me that was never destroyed.

I am not the darkness, I am not the fear, I am not the chains that kept me standing here.

I AM.

Mind. Body. Spirit.

One heart. One soul. One journey.

And now I can feel something moving through me, like the wind before the storm, like the water washing everything clean, like a light that was there before I was ever born.

I don't need to hate. I don't need to fight. I don't need to judge another soul to prove that I have light.

I choose love. I choose peace. I choose freedom. I choose to breathe.

Because where there is light, darkness cannot own me.

I searched for God outside myself for so many years, in churches, in words, in fear, in the voices of other people.

But then I stopped.

I became still.

And in that silence, I felt something deeper.

Love.

Not hatred. Not judgment. Not fear.

LOVE.

The Creator. The Father. The source of everything.

And I realized that the love I was searching for was already beating inside my heart.

I AM.

I am not here to tell you what you must believe.

I am here to tell you what I found inside myself.

Jesus taught love. Jesus taught forgiveness. Jesus taught people to look deeper than the world they could see.

And maybe we forgot the simplest message of all:

LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

So I will keep walking. I will keep searching. I will keep speaking.

Even when they say, “Billy, you're crazy.” Even when they say, “Billy, you're lost.”

I know the road I have walked.

I know the tears I have cried.

I know the darkness I survived.

And I know the light I found inside.

BILLY IS STILL HERE.

Still breathing. Still fighting. Still loving. Still learning. Still becoming.

I thought I had to escape the world to find myself.

But I learned I had to wake up inside it.

Wake up!

Wake up from the fear. Wake up from the hate. Wake up from the lies that tell your heart that you are nothing.

You are alive.

You are here.

You have a heart. You have a mind. You have a spirit.

And there is still time to find your light.

I see the past. I feel the present. I dream about tomorrow.

But I don't need to control it.

I just need to walk my path one breath at a time.

The wind can change. The storm can come. The water can rise.

But I will not run from myself anymore.

Because I know who I was.

I know what I survived.

And I know who I am becoming.

BILLY!

THIS IS MY AWAKENING!

Not perfection. Not a throne. Not a promise that life will never hurt again.

It's knowing that even when I fall, I can rise.

Even when I cry, I can breathe.

Even when I'm lost, I can search for the light.

And even when the whole world turns its back on me,

I WILL NOT TURN MY BACK ON MY SOUL.

I will keep telling people:

God is love.

God is light.

God is within us.

Love is stronger than hate.

Peace is stronger than fear.

And your spirit is more than the cage you were taught to live inside.

I don't want to control anyone.

I don't want to judge anyone.

I just want to help people remember the love in their own hearts.

If you hear my voice, don't follow Billy.

Follow your own heart.

Find your own truth.

Find your own light.

And if you fall,

GET UP.

If you break,

HEAL.

If you are afraid,

BREATHE.

Because your story is not finished.

Neither is mine.

I am Billy.

I found my path.

I found my purpose.

I found my voice.

And I found a light that I refuse to let go.

So let the world shake.

Let the old fear fall.

Let the darkness disappear where the light begins.

I am free.

I am alive.

I am love.

I am spirit.

I AM.

And Billy...

Billy is still here.

Still here.

Still here.

STILL HERE!

I will never stop searching.

I will never stop loving.

I will never stop speaking from the heart.

And I will never, ever, ever give up.

FREE BILLY!

FREE THE HEART!

FREE THE SOUL!

LET THE LIGHT BEGIN!

BILLY IS FREE!

YEAHHHHHH!

I AM STILL HERE.